Staging contemporary theatre for Waikato audiences
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Our last production...

Jo Randerson's,

Cow & Fold

Directed by: Gaye Poole

May 1st - 5th 2012
 

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A note from our Director...


GPJo Randerson's plays are vibrant, irreverent and often surprising; Jo has the ability to be simultaneously disturbing, incongruous and extremely funny.
I like the fact that we are doing Fold, first done at BATS, Wellington, in 1995, directed by Jean Betts, with a cast including Loren Horsley and Jackie van Beek, women who continue to work in New Zealand theatre and film.

Fold is tasteless and baffling at times, and playful: characters change underwear 5 times, but 'not in a sexual way' to steal a line from Cow.

And for Cow, I'm especially happy to have inherited, from the Auckland Theatre Company, an imaginative stage cloth designed by gifted emerging scenic designer Jessika Verryt.

Last year when we were reading New Zealand short plays, suitable for young casts, we read other works by Jo.
Some of those lines have stayed with me, because I see threads of them in Cow and Fold, and also because they are just so true:

"You can't always let yourself think too much about it. You've got to talk a lot." (
The Lead Wait)

"People don't always say what they mean. People don't always know what they mean." (
The Honey Bear and the Reaper)

This company and I really hope you respond to the verve and spirit of these two early Jo Randerson plays.

Gaye Poole April, 2012
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Take a look at snippet of a scene from our dress rehearsal of

COW & FOLD
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Past Productions


Cow & Fold by Jo Randerson, 2012

In the Next Room or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl, 2011

Aftershocks by Paul Brown and the Workers’ Cultural Action Committee, 2011 

Away by Michael Gow, 2011

W;t by Margaret Edson, 2010

The Dispute by Pierre Marivaux, 2010

Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley, 2009

Attempts on her Life by Martin Crimp, 2009

Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher, 2008

Marmalade: Sweet, Sour, Sticky - three short NZ plays, 2008:

Do you speak English? by Gary Langford

Banging Cymbal, Clanging Gong by Jo Randerson

The Joss Adams Show by Alma de Groen

Half Life by John Mighton, 2007

Cosi by Louis Nowra, 2007

 
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Reviews

Cow & Fold

In the Next Room or the vibrator play

Away

W;t

Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom

Compleat Female Stage Beauty
 
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Biographies

Read all about previous cast members of Carving in Ice.
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About us

The metaphor of Carving in Ice evokes the transience of theatre. Ice sculptures are crafted by artisans whose sculptures last only for a short while, then melt and disappear. Theatre too is ephemeral in its nature; once the season is completed, the existence of the play, the shapes, sounds, movement in space, the light on actors’ skin disappear from view – but as with ice sculptures the traces of the experience continue to live on in the minds of those who were present.

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